The Strategic Planning Committee (SPC) has announced meeting dates and student representatives for the 2015 – 2016 academic year.

In an all-college e-mail on Sept. 28, the dates were released for Constituency Meetings and All College Mission/Vision/Values (MVV) meetings. The committee explained that the constituency meetings are meant for peer groups to ask questions and share ideas about the SPC work and goals. The constituent groups are broken into students, administrators, faculty and support staff.

The All-College meetings are intended to discuss the college’s mission, vision, and values in order to help build the strategic plan.

The Constituency meetings will be held for students on Tuesday, Oct. 6 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Social Hall, on Monday, Oct. 5 from 12 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. in Althouse 106 for Administrators, on Monday, Oct. 5 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. in Althouse 106 and Friday, Oct. 9 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. in ATS for Support Staff and Thursday, Oct. 15 from 12 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. in ATS for Faculty.

The All-College MVV meetings are scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 12 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 8 at 5 p.m., and Friday, Oct. 9 at 8:45 a.m. All meetings will be held in ATS and will last for 75 minutes.

On Sept. 18, President Roseman announced the students who will serve on the committee. They are Natalie Ferris ’18, Isaiah Gibson ’17 and Ethan Andrews ’16.

Ferris said she applied for the committee because she wanted to “become more involved with the process of reflecting on what our core values as a college are, what they should be, what needs to be done to preserve them and what may need to change.”

Gibson said he hopes to represent the needs of all constituent groups.

“[It is] imperative to express the needs of all the people who will be affected by our decisions,” he said.

Andrews hopes to improve students’ experiences on campus.

“There are some significant shortcomings in the ‘Dickinson experience.’ However, our college has a foundation of values that, if integrated further into that ‘experience,’ will separate it from its peer institutions,” Andrews said.

For those who cannot attend any of the meetings, you can share your ideas and questions at planning@dickinson.